Heng Bo
Heng Bo (kinesisk: 河伯) eller Ho Po (også Bingyi og Hebo) var en elvegud i kinesisk mytologi.
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Heng Bo ble knyttet til Gulelven.[1] Under lange perioder mottok han menneskeoffer ved floden og ble sagt å ha blitt gud ved å ofre seg selv i floden nedtynget av steiner.
Referanser
rediger- ^ Strassberg 2002, s. 201.
Litteratur
rediger- Christie, Anthony (1968). Chinese Mythology. Feltham: Hamlyn Publishing. ISBN 0600006379.
- The Songs of the South: An Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets. London: Penguin Books. 2011. ISBN 978-0-14-044375-2.
- Strassberg, Richard E. (2002). A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21844-2.
- Watson, Burton (2013). The Complete works of Zhuangzi. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231164740.
- Yang, Lihui; An, Deming; Anderson Turner, Jessica (2008). Handbook of Chinese Mythology. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-533263-6.
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